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Poetry Dispatch No. 125 | November 20, 2006

LOVE POETRY WEEK, Monday, No.2

“I liken love to a great house, a mansion that once you go in, the big door shuts behind you and you have no idea, no premonition where it will all lead to. Chambers, vaults, confounded mazes, ladders, scaffolding, into darkness, out of darkness—anything.” Edna O’Brien from JOHNNY I HARDLY KNEW YOU

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I have loved her for so many years. The fun, genius and beauty of her work makes the pain of her death almost bearable. Thank you for putting this out on your site…… I love” Wietnam” in the Polish version, but it is great as “Vietnam” in English too, the translators make all the difference. I don’t love it for the war, I love it for the “Mother”.
“The Women of Rubens”, I still read it daily, but only the Krynski and Maguire translations, the other translators didn’t “get it”.

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